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Friday, March 1, 2013

"Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do." Aldous Huxley"When a person rediscovers
that his deepest Nature is one with the All, he is relieved from the burdens of
time, of anxiety, of worry; he is released from the chains of alienation and separate-self
existence. Seeing that self and other are one, he is released from the fear of
life; seeing that being and nonbeing are one, he is delivered from the fear of
death." Ken Wilber

Ken Wilber is highly regarded by many contemporary thinkers worldwide, for creating an integration of
unprecedented scope among a variety of schools of psychology, philosophy, sociology,
anthropology, and religion. He is also the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages. Michael Murphy the co-founder of the Esalen
Institute, and a key figure in the Human Potential Movement, maintains that,
along with Aurobindo’s Life Divine, Heidegger’s Being and Time, and Whitehead’s
Process and Reality, Wilber’s Sex, Ecology, Spirituality is “one of the four
great books of this [twentieth] century.” Tony Schwartz, former New York Times
reporter and author of What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in
America, has called Ken Wilber "the most comprehensive philosophical
thinker of our times." Jack Crittenden, the author of Wide as the
World: Cosmopolitan Identity, Integral Politics, and Democratic Dialogue, has
said that the “twenty-first century literally has three choices: Aristotle,
Nietzsche, or Ken Wilber.” Larry Dossey, who is considered one of the world’s foremost
experts on mind-body medicine, and author of ten books on the role of
consciousness and spirituality in medicine, has described Wilber's book,
"one of the most significant books ever published."

When such praise is being offered by several credible
authorities, it should be justifiable that Brooklyn Book Talk critically explore
Ken Wilber’s thoughts, and evaluate their relevance for personal and cultural growth.

So please join us here for a discussion of his best-selling book, A Brief History of Everything, which contains wide-ranging topics--from Big Bang to Postmodernism--and perennial issues, which concern us all: truth, goodness, beauty, consciousness, growth, and development.

Current Discussion: When Good People Write Bad Sentences, by Robert Harris

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